How Fair Is the Standard of Care?
If every patient is unique, can an overarching metric really be pinned down enough to declare that a given doctor was negligent as a legal certainty?
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Single-Occupancy Hospital Rooms Lead to “Immediate & Marked” Decrease in Vancomycin- Resistant E faecium
“Enterococcus faecium is one of the leading causes of healthcare-associated infections in immunocompromised and critically ill patients,” Beth Blane, MSc, notes. “E faecium has a propensity to accumulate resistance to multiple...
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Increase in Hepatitis A Vaccination Needed to Prevent Deaths
Nearly two-thirds of those with hepatitis A virus (HAV)-related deaths have at least one...
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Wastewater Surveillance Allows Monitoring of Viral Infections
Wastewater (WW) surveillance allows monitoring of endemic respiratory viral infections, according...
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A Baumannii & C Auris Common With Mechanical Ventilation
For patients receiving mechanical ventilation, Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris are...
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Pandemic Control Practices Cut Health Care-Acquired Infections
Strict infection prevention and control (IPC) measures enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic led to...
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